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Brooklyn Book Festival

Sunday September 18, 201110:00 am

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The Family Undone

10am | Borough Hall Courtroom (209 Joralemon Street)

This panel featured Roxana Robinson (Cost), Stefan Merrill Block (The Storm at the Door), Dawn Raffel (Further Adventures in the Restless Universe), and Nami Mun (Miles from Nowhere) with our executive director, Noreen Tomassi, moderating. The panelists read briefly from their work and then discussed family life gone awry in their fiction.

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Criminal Intent

5pm | Borough Hall Courtroom (209 Joralemon Street)

Bestseller lists in America are dominated by crime fiction. What's the attraction to murder and mayhem? And what seperates great mystery writing from the merely good? Hear Lawrence Block (A Drop of the Hard Stuff), Susan Isaacs (As Husbands Go), Persia Walker (Black Orchid Blues), and Peter Blauner (Slipping into Darkness) discussed these topics and more with moderator, Jonathan Santlofer (Anatomy of Fear).